Prof Gavin Smith

    Anthropology

    Visiting Professor

    Rowan House
    c/o Anthropology Office Room 2.18
    (01) 708 3984

    About

    Gavin Smith’s ethnographic work in Andean South America and Western Europe has focused on the connection between the ways in which people make a livelihood and their forms of political expression. He currently has a research project with Winnie Lem on Chinese and Latin American migrants in France, Italy and Spain. His works include Livelihood and Resistance: Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru (1989); Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology (1999); with Susana Narotzky, Immediate Struggles: People, Power and Place in Rural Spain (2006); and Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism (2014).
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